Teacher Deborah James has raised more than £3.5m after revealing she is now receiving end-of-life care for bowel cancer. Since being diagnosed in 2016, her writing, broadcasting and campaigning has raised awareness and understanding of the condition.
Nearly 200,000 people have already donated to the fundraiser here. Deborah, who has presented a BBC podcast 'You, Me and the Big C', written a best selling book called 'F*** you cancer' and written regularly for The Sun, launched it as she said "my rollercoaster ride is coming to an end very soon" and her "body simply isn't playing ball".
The former school deputy head wrote in her blog in January 2017 of the symptoms that led to telling a doctor she thought she might have bowel cancer. Despite being 35 years old, a vegetarian, not overweight and not a smoker, she was ultimately diagnosed with a stage 3 bowel cancer.
